Chongqing

NiOk this travelling has meant I've really slipped up with the blog, I will try to get everything up to date with the crazyness of travelling in china as soon as I can!
So we landed in Chongqing and got our bags, I walked out and went to buy some tickets to take us into down, I used my Chinese and she understood Jo problem, then another woman came over and decided because I booked this bus ticket ok I.could understand everything and started ranting on in Chinese, I apologized and told her I didn't understand and she explained she was trying to sell q three gorges tour, not words I had learnt yet!
We got the bus to the third stop as requested by our directions which menlntioned some bus numbera before cutting off. No bus stops or directions just numbers....
We arrived and found that Chongqing is seriously hot. It is one of the three furnaces of china, unbelievable!

After trying a few different streets and walking quite a way with a seriously heavy bag eventually a taxi pulled over, I bundled us in and started trying to make the taxi driver go there, a little begging and paying a couple of RMB over gets it sorted and he was actually very Friendly giving me a chance to practise some more awful Chinese.

We made it to the hostel and checked in ok, our 4 bed ensuite dorm had 6 people and a shared bathroom down the hall but nevermind, it did look out over the Yangtze river! When we checked in part of the government form in this province required an intended destination, of course when they asked us we had no idea so they just put down three gorges even though we knew it would not be there!
Once we had checked in we went for a walk and realised just how serious the heat here is. We stuck to it and walked a good way around the district and investigating anything that looked interesting.
The city here is really just like Hong Kong, steep streets running down to rivers and ravines with lots of bridges, and of course the heat! But I prefer this to hongkong as Chongqing is much more Chinese.

In the evening we walked down by the river to choutienmen port just nearby and watched the massive river cruise ships filling up with tourists, even with the occasional foreigner!
Choutianmen is at the point where two massive rivers meet and at this point you can paddle in the meeting point, we marked this down as a must do for another night and retired to the hotel for a few beers.